Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lion of a man had barely stepped out on the promenade deck when the New York press was upon him. "O.K., Dr. Schweitzer!" shouted the photographers. "Stand over there . . . now look this way-this way . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer, wave will-ya-with the hand, see? ... O.K., let's make him walk down the deck . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer...
...anyone with eyes to see, all the shining threads which were to make up the fabric of an exceptional life were already present in the sensitive schoolboy of Giinsbach...
...Second Coming. In 1903, Schweitzer was appointed principal of Strasbourg's Theological College. In preparation for a series of lectures on the history of research into the life of Jesus, he began the work which was first to make his reputation international-The Quest of the Historical Jesus...
...least six invitations to address Goethe bicentennial events, but he was so tired that he refused them all. Then from the University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Hutchins, chairman of the U.S. Goethe Bicentennial Foundation, came a persuader that set Dr. Schweitzer to brooding. The foundation would make the Lambarene hospital a gift of 2,000,000 francs ($6,100), Chairman Hutchins promised, if Dr. Schweitzer would come...
...that the festival (which Hutchins calls "the greatest cultural event ever held in the U.S.") would be held at 7,930-ft.-high Aspen-a onetime ghost town recently bought by Box Tycoon Walter P. Paepcke and turned into a resort. Later he learned that he was scheduled to make his address twice, once in French and once in German, on different days. And last week it was announced that Dr. Schweitzer would be awarded an honorary degree from the University of Chicago, which meant that an acceptance speech would have to be prepared and delivered...